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When young people enter the workforce they choose 4 general categories of work; Government, Business, NGO, and/or academia.

I don’t want to work in either of those categories. Instead I will make a movement that combines the strengths or each discipline.

NGOs

Strengths:
Core communication
Facilitation, community building, team building
Leveraging of free resources
Openess to partnerships within the movement
Initial dedication of volunteers

Weaknesses:
Fundraising strategy
Partnerships outside of the movement
Motivating people long term (altruism & self-sacrifice does not work).
Culture of appreciation/ownership
Definitive decisions and leadership

Businesses

Strengths:
Professional/together
Good promotions, marketing and general control over image
Adequate analisis of what works and what doesn’t
Economic powerhouses that keep the other 3 spheres running
Skilled at influencing the other 3 spheres
Good funding strategy
Motivation short and long term
Good balance between leveraging quality resources for free and paying for them
Partnerships with bus, gov and academia strong
Strong culture of ownership (businesses buy peoples lives)
Strong culture of appreciation (with money)
Definitive decisions and leadership

Weaknesses:
Too much heirarchy
Not enough community or team building
Damaging to people and the environment
Greedy, non-ethical, self-serving

Government

Strengths:
Best funding strategy
Authority
Good partnerships
Image & marketing

Weaknesses
No innovation
Beaurocratic and too heirarchichal
Not long-term thinking enough (only 4 years)

Academia

Strengths:
R&D professionals
artnerships with gov and business strong

Weakensses:
Beaurocratic
No way to connect ideas into action